The sooner this odious idea is put to rest, the better. Of all the elements, Carbon is one of our best friends. From FOX News:
In twist, environmentalists fight proposed carbon tax – because it doesn't grow gov't
On paper, it looks like a big win for environmentalists: a ballot initiative in Washington state to make it the first in the nation to impose a tax on all carbon emissions.
Yet green groups are united almost in lockstep against the proposal – all because it includes tax cuts, to offset the tax hike.
It was never about saving the whales environment. It was about sneaking in a large centralized world government. The watermellons (green on the outside, red on the inside) know that we would never actually vote for such a thing so they are following the lead of Fabius Maximus and changing society very very gradually. Incremental steps, not overthrow. These people are known as Fabian Socalists and they are a pox on the world.
The joke is that a very similar tax has been in place to our North for eight years and has been very sucessful:
The tax would start out at $25 per ton and rise each year until hitting a cap of $100 a ton. Initially, it is projected to add 25 cents to the cost of every gallon of gasoline, increase air fares and raise utility bills -- costing $2 billion a year. But this would be offset by cutting the state’s sales tax by 1 percent, lowering taxes for 400,000 working-class families and eliminating a tax on businesses that manufacture in Washington.
A similar system has been in place in British Columbia for eight years. Independent studies report a 16 percent drop in carbon emissions and no major hit to the economy.
Bauman, defending the proposal in its current form, said his goal was not to grow the size of government, so he made the measure revenue-neutral.
Speaking truth to power:
“They’re more afraid of tax cuts,” said Todd Myers, an analyst with Washington Policy Center. “They only want a government solution, and so they’re willing to destroy an effort that would actually reduce carbon emissions, make us more energy efficient, because they care more about government than climate change.”
So true...
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